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The crew of s/v Airi Alee at our marina made a decision to buy a new Liferaft once the 10-man raft that came with the boat reached 7 years old. At that point, certification should be done every year. We manually inflated the raft in the swimming pool at D...

Get a ticket to our homecoming in Auckland here! https://rayc.co.nz/event/parlay-party/#tribe-tickets__tickets-form In this episode Katie and Zoe offer to do a 48 hour liferaft challenge, in the middle of an atoll in French Polynesia. They suddenly reali...

It’s time to get on with provisioning Nutshell for our impending departure to Indonesia. First we remove the two gas bottles from the boat. One is to be filled and the other returned. We spend the day running around and ticking off things on our list. ...

If your boat starts to sink, you need to act! And fast! What will you grab before it's too late! What is the most important to you and your survival? Will you be able to survive at sea for months, or will your mind turn on you as you go insane out there ...

It's scary to think about. But what if you have to abandon your sailboat out in the open ocean. It's a fear of anyone who's ever been out on a boat has had. "What if this boat sinks?" We've all thought about it. But I wanted to try and feel it a bit more. ...

Sorry...the other live stream crashed... right at the best PART! We’re picking up our brand new life raft this morning and Mike at Superior Life Saving is letting us Pull the cord and Blow another one up so we can see exactly what happens in the off cha...

Mis-matched paperwork from Moorings left us feeling like we may have been duped, and we had very little confidence in our Plastimo offshore liferaft. So, we put it in the pool and (tried to) pull the rip cord. Good thing we did because this raft may not ha...

▶ HOW CAN YOU INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF SURVIVAL AND BE RESCUED? Please 👍 this video and SUBSCRIBE for updates: https://ftbyoutube.page.link/subscribe Imagine if the unthinkable happens and you have to ABANDON SHIP? What happens once you are in the l...

▶ How to choose a liferaft and improve your chances of survival. We talk to an air-sea rescue helicopter pilot. LIKE this video and SUBSCRIBE for updates: https://ftbyoutube.page.link/subscribe "Step up!", "Attach your grab bag" - We talk through some o...

▶ We didn't know this would happen! LIKE this video and SUBSCRIBE for updates: https://ftbyoutube.page.link/subscribe As we upgrade our sailboat safety kit for the long passage ahead, we decided it would be a good idea to test our liferaft. So on a broi...

On location at beautiful Bait Reef on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, we sit down and answer your questions about setting off our old Life Raft, the Chainplate saga, our Ground Tackle and Grab Bag - along with some questions About Us! THANK YOU SO MUCH FO...

After recently purchasing a new Liferaft we were curious to know if our old raft had any life left in her. So of course - we just had to test her out! Darren has always wanted to know if he could deploy our Liferaft in heavy weather by himself - and well...